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Developed Northern Corridor Green other member states without
Freight Strategy 2030 and raised considering age limits will still be driven
awareness of the need to establish As achievements from into the Port of Mombasa and back
motor vehicle inspection centres in the the first Green Freight causing the same damage to the
member states. Programme, we did environment.
40 percent of what was
The main partners in implementing the “We are currently encouraging
Northern Corridor Green Freight expected to be done and governments to come up with tax
we felt we needed a new
Strategy 2030 is UNEP Public and strategy by bringing in breaks for companies importing new
Private stakeholders in member States partners who could assist vehicles that conform with the age
and Development partners whose us to fulfill the new limits to the transport companies to do
, ,
mandate is mainly focused on mitigating mandates - Mr. Nyarandi so,” said Mr. Nyarandi.
climate change and decarbonization He said the government also needs to
strategies. include training of the drivers in their
According to Mr. Nyarandi, “The real programmes and set minimum
cost cannot be ascertained at the academic qualifications for those
moment but in the long run it will Mr. Omae Nyarandi, applying for driving licenses. This, he
prove economically viable.” Executive Secretary NCTTCA said, will enable drivers to read and
understand instructions and road signs.
Some of the investment needs, he said,
include culture change and continuous Authority hopes that these drivers will of performance along the corridor,” “The threat to the environment is real.
training of the drivers to help them We have seen some unexplained
start training other drivers if the said Mr. Nyarandi.
understand issues of green companies start seeing the gains and diseases emerging in our midst A vehicle drives on the new Chinese built 51 kilometer 31 miles four lane
environment. advantages to the environment. “When we succeed, they may come to including cancer. We need to protect expressway connecting Uganda’s capital Kampala to Entebbe International
benchmark and implement the
Testimony by one of the main With time the companies will start Northern Corridor Green Freight our people against such calamities.” Airport
transporters in Kenya, Mr. Newton investing in engines and trucks that are Strategy 2030. However, other Sister
Wango'o, Director of One-to-One eco-friendly
Logistics Kenya Ltd, revealed that Corridors may be having their own
The scope of transport covered by the Green Freight Programmes too.”
“With the new trucks and good eco-
Northern Corridor Green Freight
driving habits, a driver can save 200 It is the Northern Corridor
litres for every 2500kms traveled”. Strategy 2030 includes the four modes Secretariat's view that the Green
of transport covered by the Northern
“And with reduced fuel consumption, Freight
Corridor Transit and Transport
this translates to reduced C02 Agreement. These include roads, Strategy is going to help minimize
emissions, He added. railways, pipelines, and inland negative health, safety, and
At the current implementation stage, waterways. It excludes Air Transport. environmental impacts in Eastern
the Authority is preparing the The Northern Corridor facilitates Africa.
implementation matrix which will come about 10,000 trucks on a daily freight The Strategy is also expected to have a
with estimated costs for different big impact on the fuel consumption of
movement carrying an estimated
interventions by different stakeholders. 75,000 tons. About 2500-3000 trucks road transporters on the corridor.
To make green freight more attractive are from the Port of Mombasa and its Freight transport is said to account for
and to reduce the costs associated environs to the hinterlands of Kenya nearly a quarter of all global emissions.
with transitioning to new technologies, and East African Community (EAC) In Africa, the number of vehicles may be
transport companies along the nations. Remarkably, 65% of the total comparatively fewer, but the amount of
corridor are encouraged by the traffic departing from Mombasa emissions is quite high.
programme to subject their drivers to remains within the borders of Kenya. The NCTTCA encourages member
continuous training. On whether this strategy will be states to come up with uniform policies
“If you look at the activities that we escalated to other corridors on the that deter the importation of old
have put in this Green Freight Strategy continents, Mr. Nyarandi said that other vehicles. A member country like Kenya
for 2030, you will find that it includes sister corridors may see fit to have accepts the importation of vehicles up
training,” said Mr. Nyarandi added “In similar Green Freight Programmes and to eight years of age yet other member
the earlier strategy we trained 55 Strategies. states have left this open.
drivers drawn from various companies “We have seen other corridors from But without regular inspections to
in Kenya and another 25 in Rwanda on Western and Southern Africa come to ensure the engines are working well
eco- driving”. study what we are doing such as the with low emissions, such a policy may
This was a cost borne by NCTTCA transport observatory – a a monitoring still not serve the purpose. This is
and its partners. In the long run, the tool that measures over 40 indicators because the same trucks imported into

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